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- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
What did people do before ATMs? That's a question that causes most twentysomethings to draw a blank. They don't remember the days when people conducted their banking—face-to-face with a teller—between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays. The idea of making out a check to... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
Gareth Olds grew up toeing the poverty line. For years his parents struggled to support three children in Anchorage, Alaska, where food costs run high. His stepfather held down a steady but low-paying job as a dental assistant, and his mom performed a series of View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
historian and Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullogh. I've heard that it's a nitty-gritty account of how they achieved sustained flight—against all odds and through industriousness, patience, and relentless experimentation. Robert Kaplan... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
increases the odds of the parent bank being selected as a future lender, an advisor, and an underwriter. Collectively, these findings suggest that there are risks in combining banking and private equity investing. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
from the most extreme want to the most extreme should movie increasing the odds of a preference reversal by 10%. Similarly, we also predict and find that should DVDs are held significantly longer than want DVDs. Our study ties together... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
made a difference in the world for all time. Dean Nitin Nohria, George F. Baker Professor of Administration: In the face of great odds and through acts of courage and conviction, Mandela transformed a nation and its people. And although... View Details
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
2002 when it sold its HDD (hard disk drive) business to Hitachi and continued to build its position in consulting, where it had better odds of earning the kinds of returns it wanted. And that's also the point that AT&T got to in 2004,... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Then judgment—a fusion of thinking, feelings, experience, imagination, and character—becomes critical. The author offers five practical questions to improve your odds of making sound judgments: What are the net, net consequences of all my... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
bureaucracy can be wildly at odds with what entrepreneurs and their backers really need. Economists have also focused on a second problem, delineated in the theory of regulatory capture. These writings suggest that private- and... View Details
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
Barton is a research associate. We talked with Rangan about the research and the courses he teaches on business and poverty. Sean Silverthorne: Traditionally, it was thought that the goal of the private sector—to maximize profit—was at View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
businessperson. But there is an alternative world. One of the things we found out is if you just put out a kind of road map for the two world views, they were at such odds with each other—business and the church—that you can see why the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
governance are the most daunting because the very foundations of governance—vote allocation proportionate to economy, representation by finance ministries, absence of parliamentary scrutiny, and the relative voicelessness of the poorest and most affected actors—are at... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
future existed. It seemed odd to Mustafa that finding a financial partner capable of providing tens, even hundreds of millions of dollars to reshape an industry was proving to be remarkably easy, while finding a single individual capable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
worth more. But often these contracts have sharp points at which the curve changes direction all at once, which can produce odd incentives. Even more strikingly, many of the compensation functions have jumps—sell just one more unit and... View Details
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
department a number of tokens it can "spend" annually on engineering work to build custom features—boosting the odds of signing contracts with new customers. In December 2010, a request for proposal from a very large utility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
traditional theories of leader selection describe organizations as picking leaders with particular characteristics, LFT sees organizations as having a filtration process that evaluates a pool of candidates and iteratively removes them from the pool, with the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-042.pdf Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations Authors:Ufuk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
First, these ancient civilizations may have been at odds since 1962, but for 2,000 years before that, they enjoyed close economic, cultural, and religious ties. Second, neighbors trade more than non-neighbors do, research suggests. Third,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
emergence, decline, and eventual re-emergence. I find that re-emergence requires components that, paradoxically, facilitate both field transformation and field preservation. Although these processes appear to be at odds with one another,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7
forward real rate. This finding is at odds with standard macro models based on sticky nominal prices, which imply that monetary policy cannot move real rates over a horizon longer than that over which all prices in the economy can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne